Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-20
"CITY AND COUNTRY"

"CIIY AND COUNTRY"
The local columns of THE GAZETTE yes
terday recorded q union of forces thai
once thoroughly modified will bring IN
told good to town and county. The city
Of Fort Worth and Tarrant county have
Joined hands in an effort for material
progress and common benefit, and this
effort should have the hearty co-opera-
ton of every man in town aud county
1t must be apparent to the dullest COM
prehension that the interests of town and
county are mutual and reciprocal and the
result Of any effort made by them COM
mon one. Had Fort Worth $4,000
people, every acre of land within reach OF
it would be enhanced in value, not only
as q saleable property, but as 8 produc-
ductive investment. With $4,000 people
in the city, "truck farming" within reach
OF the city would be more profitable than
the cultivation of cotton. The lands of
northern and eastern sections are not
held st $3.50 to 5000 an acre because they
are richer and more productive
than those of Texas which sell
at from IS to $25, but because
large town and city populations provide
q market easy of access to the products
OF those lands; those lands are made
more valuable, to hold as well as to sell,
by the demands of the town people for
what is produced on those lands. The
growth and progress of the town is i'm
possible without corresponding benefit to
the country.
And the reverse is true. Could Tar
rant county be given to-day
large population the needs of those
people would promote the trade
of the town and attract more
trsdesmen whose wants would pro-
vide a larger market for the products
of the farm. Neither town nor county
can advance without promoting the ad-
Vancement of the other, and the obvious
policy is that which has now been in
to the end that the common
good may be the more substantially and
the sooner attained. When Newton and
Norris and Evans and Stephens and
DWigglns and Jobling and Latimer and
Hudson and such men from the
county inaugurate movements to put fac
tories and people with mouths to feed in
Fort Worth, they simply set on foot |
to provide home market for |
farm products that will enrich farm own
ers. And when VanZa ndt and Smith
ind Cummings and Malone and Mitchell |
md such men Join in an effort
% provide home market for
arm products, they simply |
abor to promote the interests OF their
own; for there can be no good to one as
here can be no evil to one, without good
,r i'll to the other.
THE GAZETTE will not say this is a
movement that should not be allowed to
lag; THE GAZETTE says more: This is
movement that should be vigorously
nd persistently pushed. The good work
las been inaugurated; let it in
lude all the agencies that build up
nd cement and make permanently pros
erous. The establishment OF manutac-
uring enterprises will provide work for
he unemployed, and furnish means to
urchsse the products of the farm. Add
o these the means of ready communica-
ion between the producer and the con-
umer, which are found in good roads
OF only straight roads but good roads,
O that when the farmer has
eed to travel, he may select days when
e cannot work and thus save time. As
! is now when ugly weather prevents
,ork on the farm it also prevents travel,
nd good roads are as essential to the
uilding up of the farm as railroads are
} the building up of the town. With
lctories and good roads there will come
} town and county such prosperity as
ever entered the dreams of either.